Comments on: Google Wave: ‘Surf’s Up’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29008 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cruise http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29008/comment-page-1#comment-985583 Cruise Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:32:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29008#comment-985583 Got some Google Wave invites, email me stevencruisest@gmail.com Got some Google Wave invites, email me stevencruisest@gmail.com

]]> By: Henry Emrich http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29008/comment-page-1#comment-985250 Henry Emrich Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:14:39 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29008#comment-985250 To be honest, I think Google is "less" evil than some other corporate behemoths -- hell, they have the "authors@google" thing, which was one of the bideos that I first learned about Rick Falkvinge), but they *do* kinda still suck: 1. The chinese censorship thing was bullshit. 2. Chrome is.....I can't even see a point to it. 3. They should make that customized Ubuntu-derivative they claim to use available from the web: if a power-player like Google threw itself behind something like that, Micro$oft (and the whole closed-source/non-free software world) would be shitting bricks. It wouldn't be hard for Google to actually *not* be evil: A. Don't help repressive regimes B. Don't sell user information. (Better: don't even COLLECT the information, so it's not there to sell.) C. Instead of just having that "google code" software portal, make that custom Ubunto version they use available via a Bit-torrent download, right from the main Google search page. (Hell, that would be something REALLY useful, not like Google Chrome, which is just another browser.) Pretty simple fixes, actually. To be honest, I think Google is “less” evil than some other corporate behemoths — hell, they have the “authors@google” thing, which was one of the bideos that I first learned about Rick Falkvinge), but they *do* kinda still suck:

1. The chinese censorship thing was bullshit.
2. Chrome is…..I can’t even see a point to it.
3. They should make that customized Ubuntu-derivative they claim to use available from the web: if a power-player like Google threw itself behind something like that, Micro$oft (and the whole closed-source/non-free software world) would be shitting bricks.

It wouldn’t be hard for Google to actually *not* be evil:

A. Don’t help repressive regimes
B. Don’t sell user information. (Better: don’t even COLLECT the information, so it’s not there to sell.)
C. Instead of just having that “google code” software portal, make that custom Ubunto version they use available via a Bit-torrent download, right from the main Google search page. (Hell, that would be something REALLY useful, not like Google Chrome, which is just another browser.)

Pretty simple fixes, actually.

]]> By: catflap http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29008/comment-page-1#comment-985049 catflap Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:01:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29008#comment-985049 more crap. no thx. more crap. no thx.

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